Clothes hanging device



Dec. 25, 1962 T. CAMPAGNOLO 3,070,270

CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Filed June 22, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet l Elsi 4Inventor TULLIO CAMPAGNOLO Attorney T. CAMPAGNOLO CLOTHES HANGING DEVICEDec. 25, 1962 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 22, 1959' Inventor 7044/0CAMPAGNOLO A ttomey 1952 T. CAMPAGNOLO 7 3,07

' CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Filed June 22, 1959 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Inventor 1Tum/0 CAMpAs/vozo i/ MM Attorney Dec. 25, 1962 CAMPAGNOLQ 7 3,070,270

CLOTHES HANGING DEVICE Filed June 22, 1959 I 4 Sheets-Sheetfl I InventorTz/LL/a CAMPflG/VOLO By (9/100- d Attorney United States Patent fihce3,070,270 Patented Dec. 25, 1962 3,070,276 LOTHES HANGING DEVECE TullioCampagnolo, Vicenza, Italy Studio F. Fumero, Corso Magenza 27, Milan,Italy) Filed June 22, 1959, Ser. No. 822,047 Claims priority,application Italy June 24, 1953 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-85) The presentinvention relates to a device for hanging clothing articles, such astrousers or skirts, consenting to same to be kept straight, andpreventing same from taking false folds, or being creased during itshanging.

Said device is characterized by a hangable and deformable structurecomprising two arms stretched in opposite directions and located on thesame plane so that they can be moved apart or approached to each other,said arms being at their free ends provided with means adapted to holdthe clothing article at opposite, corresponding points thereof.

According to a typical embodiment, said structure is elasticallydeformable and is formed by at least one piece of steel wire shaped insuch a way as to provide at the two sides of its hanging element, twoshort branches divergently directed downwardly, which are then prolongedinto substantially horizontal arms, specularly symmetrical with respectto the vertical axis of the hanging element, at whose free ends areassociated the means for holding the clothing article.

Some practical embodiments of the device for hanging clothing articlesaccording to the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawingwherein:

FIGS. 1 to 3 are a front view, a side view and a prospective viewrespectively, of a first embodiment meant to serve as trousers-holder;

FIG. 4 is a detail of a change thereof, in enlarged scale;

FIGS. 5 to 7 are views similar to those of FIGS. 1 to 3 respectively, ofanother embodiment of a trousersholder;

FIGS. 8 and 9 are front views of an embodiment of the device to be usedas skirt-holder, respectively in rest position and in operativeposition;

FIG. 10 is a view similar to the one of FIG. 9 of another embodiment ofa skirt-holder;

FIG. 11 is a front view in reduced scale of a fourth embodiment of thedevice according to the invention;

FIG. 12 is a front view of a fifth embodiment, of which FIGS. 13 to 15are details, partially sectioned; and

FIG. 16 is a partial front view of a sixth embodiment of the deviceaccording to the invention.

With reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, the hanging element is formed by a steelwire which is shaped in such a way as to provide two arms 1 specularlysymmetrical with respect to the axis y-y which, through two inclinedbranches 2, symmetrical with respect to the axis itself, join each otherin a central loop 3. Said arms 1 have at their free ends, forks 4indented on the outer side of their two branches, which are introducedinto the lower opening of both legs, respectively, of the trousers l, asshown in FIG. 3. Instead of being fixed to arms 1 as in FIGS. 1 to 3,the forks 4 can be, for making their adhering to the trousers safer,hinged at about mid-height of their branches (FIG. 4). The finalsections 6, suitably bent to said aim, of the arms 1 engage pivot 5connected between forks 4. In this case each fork can oscillate but islimited by pawl means such as, for instance, a slot 7 is formed in thetop part of the fork, through which the corresponding final section 6 ofthe arm 1 is disposed.

In the embodiment according to FIGS. 5 to 7, the loop wherein the twoarms 1 of the device join each other through the two branches 2, is bentin hook-like manner 8. The two pieces of wire forming the hook 8 arecurved so as to form two adjacent arcs slightly divergent starting fromthe top thereof. In order to make the device more handy since it must betightened by hand to insert the forks 4 into the trousers P, at thebottom of the branches 2 there are provided small indentations 9 for thefingers to readily grasp the device. Furthermore to facilitate theinsertion of the two branches of each fork 4 into the openings of thetrousers P, the branches of a fork to be inserted into the opening ofone leg are made of a different length from the branches of the forkwhich is to be inserted into the opening of the other leg.

The skirt-holder according to FIGS. 8, 9 is exactly like thetrousers-holder as per FIGS. 5 to 7. However, the arms 1 are provided attheir extreme ends with means for engaging the skirt which in theembodiment of FIGS. 8, 9 are made by small cylinders 10 provided with aseries of annular projections 11 in order to ensure a perfect adherenceto the inner part of the belt of the skirt G. Said cylinders being madeof various kinds of material such as metal, glass, china, plastic or thelike, are mounted, e.g. by pressure, on the free ends of the arms 1which are substantially bent to form a right angle.

While in the skirt-holder of FIGS. 8, 9 the means for engaging the skirtare directed downwards with respect to the arms 1, in the embodimentaccording to FIG. 10 they are directed upwards which in many cases mayresult in a more convenient arrangement because the height of theskirt-holder is reduced and at the same time the room for the skirt isincreased beneath the hanging point.

In order to give a clear example of the difference of the various meanswhich can be adopted for engaging the skirt, while on the left-hand sideof FIG. 10 the means is represented by a small cylinder 10 with annularprojections 11, same as in FIGS. 8, 9, while, on the righthand side ofFIG. 10 said means is represented by a undulated projection of thecorresponding arm 11' bent in a right angle with respect to the armitself.

FIG. 11 represents a trousers-holder, formed by two rods 12 and 13reciprocally slidable along their common axis and lockable in anydesired position for instance through a winged screw 14. Rod 12 supportsa hook 15.

The trousers or skirt hanging device according to FIGS. 512, 13 isprovided with two metal elements formed for instance by two pieces ofsteel wire bent to form an angle in order to provide each piece of wirewith a longer branch 1 and a shorter branch 2. Said two elements, equalto each other, are located in a position specularly symmetrical to eachother with respect to the axis yy, on the same plane and with theshorter branches adjacent and slightly convergent towards their freeends. Two brackets 16, 17 respectively are connected to the shorterbranches. Said two brackets'are partially overlapping in order to formtogether, about a common pin is pivoted on both, a casing. Within saidcasing there is a spring 19 about the pin 18 having one end 19 thereofengaging aprojection on the inner side of bracket 17, while the otherend 19" of it engages any of the slots 28 with which the inwardly bentlower edge of the bracket 16 is provided. Thus, by displacing saidprojection 19 of the spring from a slot 20 to the next, the tension ofthe spring can be adjusted and in consequence also the action of themeans for engaging the clothes on the clothes themselves in any desiredmanner. 0f the branches 2 of the two elements, the one next to bracket17 is prolonged beyond said bracket with a hook-like part 21 whichserves for hanging the device.

In the manner as the embodiments described above, the clothes-holderaccording to FIG. 12 is provided at the ends of the branches 1 withholding means of the above described type, or of other similar typessuch as for instance the one illustrated in FIG. 14 if it is atrousersholder (as shown at the left in FIG. 12) or the one illustratedin FIG. 15 if meant for holding skirts (as shown at the right in FIG.12).

Both the holding means of FIG. 14 and FIG. 15 comprise a metal plate 22bent over itself and shaped in its central part so as to engage, inopposite housings 23 provided with conical recesses 24, an eye 25connected to the end of the branch 1 of the element on which said plateis to be located.

For the trousers-holder, then, the plate 22 is prolonged at the twoupper ends of its bending on itself through a double right anglefolding, into two opposite parts which form the two branches 26 and 27of a fork, meant to be inserted into the two legs of the trousers. Inthis case as well, the branches 26 and 27 have ditferent lengths inorder to facilitate their insertion into the two legs of the trousers,and along the outer face they are indented.

For the skirt-holder, it is the initially bent part of the plate 22which holds the skirt by its belt, and which is also indented in itsouter edge.

In the embodiment of the clothes-holder of FIG. 16 there are shown twometal elements bent to form an angle in order to provide two longerbranches 1 and two shorter branches 2, the latter being convergent andconnected to each other by two brackets 28, 29 associated therewith,which partially overlap, and are pivoted on a common pin 30. Thebranches 2 are divergently prolonged beyond said brackets 28, 29 and onthese divergent ends, outside the brackets, there is anchored a tensionspring 31 with two terminal hooks, tending to move apart from each otherthe two branches 2 in the part beneath the brackets 28, 29. Above thespring 31 one of the branches 2 is prolonged so as to form a hangingbook 32.

What I claim is:

A garment hanger comprising a single length of spring wire having anapproximately 180 bend adjacent the center axis of said garment hangerforming arms disposed in the same plane which extend from said bend andare spaced from each other, said arms adjacent said bend being formedinto a compressible suspension hook, one of said arms extendingrearwardly from said axis and having an inclined branch which forms anacute angle with said axis, an indentation which is directed toward saidaxis formed in said inclined branch at the bottom thereof, the other ofsaid arms extending forwardly of said axis and having a further inclinedbranch which forms an acute angle with said axis, a further indentationwhich is directed toward said axis formed in said further inclinedbranch at the bottom thereof, each arm extending from each indentationaway from said axis at substantially a right angle thereto, each armterminating in garment engaging means substantially parallel to saidaxis, said garment engaging means supporting and maintaining a garmentthereon in tension with said suspension hook compressed to exert anexpansive force between said garment engaging means.

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